The human Y did once contain as many genes as the X chromosome, but has lost them in the past 166 million years. As a result, most of the Y today is made up of repetitive "junk DNA." ...

As Humanity moves into the future, traveling to other worlds and exploring genetics, AI, transhumanism, and cybernetics, we may begin to diverge into a thousand post-human species.

A typical mammalian species can be expected to exist for a million years. Modern humans, Homo sapiens, have been around for roughly 300,000 years. So what will happen if we make it to a million years?

The future is big. Almost unimaginably big. Take the human population, for example. If humanity sticks around at its current population level for as long as the Earth remains habitable—somewhere ...

We have a tendency to favor immediate rewards over future benefits, writes Dr. Patrick Noack. But a change in perspective is needed – and possible.

Humanity may split into two sub-species in 100,000 years' time as predicted by HG Wells, an expert has said. Evolutionary theorist Oliver Curry of the London School of Economics expects a genetic ...

As global warming continues and space technology improves, there is more and more talk about the growing possibility of a sci-fi future in which humans become a multiplanetary species.

More than 800 human-harvested shellfish species tend to be more resistant to extinction Researchers caution that harvests must be sustainably managed to preserve populations for future generations ...